Re: Creating debian packages from files/sources

[Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>]

Am Tue, 18 Jul 2017 13:31:12 +0200
schrieb Claudius Heine <ch@denx.de>:

> Hi,
> 
> from what I gather with isar, it is currently not possible to build
> debian packages directly in an isar recipe conveniently.
> 
> There are a couple of scenarios for this:
> 
>   - Package configuration and interpreted files.
>   - Build meta or virtual packages that just contain only dependencies
>     Instead of installing specific packages into a image, install only
> one virtual package with every package that is needed for the target
> as a dependency
> 
>   - Compile sources in a buildchroot and package it even if the
> sources are not debianized.
> 
> Currently I am looking into a generic way to deploy lxc containers
> with isar to the target. So some mechanism like this might come in
> handy.
> 
> Are some of those points already possible or is someone working on
> them?

https://packages.debian.org/stretch/equivs

This seems to be a good starting point. It has some issues but if you
hide it in the baseclass it can be exchanged with something more
sophisticated some day.

It offers hook scripts and packaging random Files.

Henning

> Cheers,
> Claudius
>